Joe Morgan is the consummate local
government management professional. From an economic
development perspective, he is grounded in reality but manages
to successfully communicate and implement a vision that’s
built on collaboration and creativity, which are necessarily
characteristics in rural communities. North Carolina
State alumni are few and far between in the great Commonwealth,
and I’ll look forward to seeing him and Nancy in the
stands at all the upcoming televised Wolfpack ballgames!

-Liz Povar

Director, Business Development

Virginia Economic Development
Partnership

Joe said he also looked forward to
returning to the job he’d held from 1984 to 1986 as
Halifax County Administrator. He liked it then, and he
liked it even better the second time around.

“I think it was a good
decision,” he said. “It was a location
decision for family and personal reasons. My mom says
it’s because of NC State athletics that my brother and I
take a lot of pride in. Halifax is as close as you could
be in Virginia to the Raleigh-Durham area.”

Caroline County, then they migrated
westward to Halifax. The old family land is now owned by
the South Boston Town Attorney, he explained. His branch
of the family eventually headed south to North Carolina, where
Joe was born. Ann Rogers Clark’s family moved
farther west, near the Jeffersons in Albemarle County.
Many think it is no coincidence that Jefferson chose
Lewis and Clark as the explorers to send west since the three
were raised within the same small, intimate community.

Joe Morgan is an unabashed fan of NC State, and
now they will have him in their cheering section on a full time basis.